Vehicle-body.



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VEHICILE BQDY. APPLICATION -FIL'D DEC.6. 1916 Patented Aug. 7, 19V?.

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u. H.3 nu BOSE y vfHLcLE sony. APPLICATION FILEDA D506. 1916.

PmenfedAng; 7, 1917.-

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Y @moa/nto@ HDUBOSE STATES DANIEL H. DU Bosn, lor str Yi/ioiv, QKLAHMA. l

'To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL DU BsE,--a

` citizen of the United States, "residing at 1 Guymon, in'thetcounty of Texas and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and- `useful Imp ovements' in Vehicle-Bodies, of

' er'ence being had to the accompanying draw- This invention relates'to certain improveffnents in vehicle bodies and has relat'ioiif'more particularly to a device of-this general 'character of a type employed in connection with automobiles ons'imilaivvehicles; and it is an objectof the invention to provide a vwager-'1l bod 'havino' novel. and im ar-oved means The invention also has for an object. to`

providea, novel and improved' vehicle body I wherein a plurality of seats are employed -a'nd wherein one `of said seats is provided i Y L maintained in substantially a vertical ppsi` with a back ustable relatively to a second vseat and whereby saidseats may'- be con- ',verted into a bed or the like.

-It is also an obj ect of the invention to provide a. device of this general character in'- cluding a seat provided with a swinging back together with novel and improved means wherebysaid back may. beeffectively l tion.

tion to provide a vehicle including a novel and improved seat structure whereina swinging .panel 'iseni'ployed adapted to be elevated to coact with the'bed structure vor to permit an effective ventilation of the body .beneath the seat and to'p'erinit access beneath the seat for the purpose of cleansingl rangement ef tl.' several parts of my inil proved .vehicle body whereby certain important advantages are attained and the "'de# vice is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise ni'ore convenient and advantageous for use. all as willbe hereinafter more full-y set f'oi'tli.

The novel featui'esof the invention will A hereinafter. be definitely claimed.

In order that 'in v invention ma)v bethe better understood. I will now 'proceed to describe the same with reference to 4theaccoinpanying drawings, wherein sitiOn; andy tthe vehiclel.

Furthermore itis an object of the inven- 'poses of ventilation.v

'.Yhen elevated to substantially a horizoncoacts with the seat IFigure a vertical sectional View taken through a fragment ofiaglvehiclebodyjllusf Fig'Q is a top plan vievvof thedevioe as disclosed in Fig. l;

Fig. 3 is 'a vertical sectional view taken.

through aI fragment of a vehicle body illus-1 5 .Y Specification of ietters Patent. Y' d 'Appncaion inea neember allais. seiaiivaiass. Y'

trat-ing the front seat in'its normal pt )sit-i'on',l

Fig: @is afragmentary View partly'- in elevationand partly :in section illustrating one of tlhe locking members vforLmaintaining the back .of thefront seat-*inits normal p05 Fig. 5 isa transverse'sectional.Viewtakeny through the4 structure asv disclosed in'-11`ig'. 4f.-

As disclosed in theacconipanying drawings, 'A and B. denote' seats disposed transversely Aof' a vehiclev and spaced l'longitudinally thereof, the forward seat A being' prof vided with4 a swinging back C which, when lowered into substantially a hori'zontal position',- serves to bridgethe space between theing devices or the like." When in its lowered withthe inwardly disposed stops 1 carried seats A and B so that the same 4may be .readily-'and conveniently employed for sleepbythe opposite side walls ofthe bodyfV of Coacting l-with tioned ,substantially lvertical :to *close the space between the seat' A andthe floor F 'of circulationfof air therebeneath forthe pur` tal position the panel A in'sucli' a manner as to 4be included in the bed structure-andas herein 'disclosed said pan-'el D is maintained'in its elvated'position through the medium of 'the rack `or the. front seat- Iislitlie swinging panel 'D which is normally posi? tooth bar Q pivotally engaged with the lower or outer marginal portion 'of' the panel DI andadapted to coacti with the .pin 3.eX

bod)V Y. In'view ofthefactthat the teeth tendinginwardly from a side wall of theI jacent the upper margin thereof is a hanger bar H provided adjacent its opposite ends.

with the inwardly directed arms pivotally supported intermediate their lengthbythe back C, and each of said arms 5 is operatively engaged, as. at 6, with an arm a of a The bar'H is adapted to support'robes,

articles of clothing or the like and also 'afords a convenient means whereby thel klocking means for the back C maybe'readily .and conveniently operated.v

.From the `ioregoing description, it is,

I thought to be obvious vthat a vehicle body 'constructed'in accordance with my invention isofan extremelylsimpleiand comparatively l l'nenxpensivenature and 1s particularly well adapted for use by reason of the convenlence facility with which it may be assembled,

andit Willa-lso bel'obvio'us that myl invention `is susceptiblexof soni'echange and modicamembers carriedbythe back adjacent oppo site sidesthereof and coacting withthe end Walls of the seat structure for holding thebackagainst swinging movement, bell crank levers coacting with saidlatch-m'embers, and a swinging b ar disposed l.longit'udinallv of the back and operatively engaged with each of said bell crank levers whereby. said latch members may be operated in unison.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses. A DANIEL'ZH. DU BOSE. Witnesses I.

BRNIE L. BnviLL,

NANNA R. DU BOSE. 

